The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 5
Walruses find clams on the dark seabed with hundreds of sensitive whiskers and suck them out of their shells.
Who acts: Walruses · What happens: find, suck · To what, where: clams, dark seabed, shells
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walruses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walruses | walrus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | clams | clam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 seabed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seabed | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seabed | amod |
| 7 | seabed | seabed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hundreds | case |
| 9 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 whiskers | case |
| 11 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 whiskers | amod |
| 12 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hundreds | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 suck | cc |
| 14 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 suck | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 shells | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 shells | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shells | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 suck | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Walruses | clams | the dark seabed | with hundreds of sensitive whiskers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clam=Topic | ||
| 2 | suck | present | Walruses not said here | clams = clam | tusks's shells | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme out shell=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:5.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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